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Structure dossier · WDID 4203620 · 3 · NORTH FORK KANNAH CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:46 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
Which of its rights get called out?
Not computable for this structure: this structure is not on the modelled flow network, so no reference gage can honestly stand in for it.
Where it sits in line
Priority 1911-11-01 — 254th most senior of the 726 structures with decreed rights in this water districtDWR's administrative subdivision of a river basin; the unit calls are usually stated in..
Under prior appropriationColorado's rule for sharing water: first in time, first in right. Age decides, not proximity or need., everything ahead of it in this line is satisfied in full before it receives any water. Immediately ahead: FRUITA RES #1 (1905-10-16). Immediately behind: BOLEN A & J RES NO 2 (1911-11-12).
Decreed rights (6)
| Admin noDWR's numeric encoding of a water right's seniority. Smaller is more senior; the integer part counts days from 1849-12-31 to the date that ranks the right. | AppropriatedWhen water was first put to beneficial use. It sets seniority unless a prior adjudication date is later. | AdjudicatedWhen the water court confirmed the right. A use decreed in 1975 was not a decreed use in 1955, however old the appropriation is. | AbsoluteA right actually put to use, as opposed to conditional -- a placeholder for a use not yet made. | ConditionalA right reserving a place in line for a use not yet made; it must be diligently pursued or it lapses. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30895.22584 | 1911-11-01 | 1941-07-25 | 400.094 | 0.0 | A | IRR | |
| 37778.0 | 1953-06-07 | 1959-07-21 | 1562.0 | 0.0 | A | IRRDOM | |
| 37788.0 | 1953-06-17 | 1959-07-21 | 751.0 | 0.0 | A | IRRDOM | |
| 43464.42825 | 1967-04-02 | 1969-12-31 | 4156.6 | 1792.1 | A | IRRMUNINDDOM | |
| 52950.0 | 1994-12-21 | 1994-12-31 | 2207.24 | 0.0 | A | MUNSNO | |
| 55517.52579 | 1993-12-15 | 2002-12-31 | 919.0 | 0.0 | A | MUN |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 6,803 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 5,368 AF — 79% of that, and 1st lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| Year | Diverted (AFA volume: one acre covered a foot deep, about 326,000 gallons -- roughly a suburban household's outdoor use for a year.) | Compared with its own record | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 6,556 | 5th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 5,863 | 365 | 14.7 |
| 2011 | 7,095 | 10th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 5,595 | 365 | 35.7 |
| 2012 | 6,544 | 4th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 5,085 | 366 | 39.5 |
| 2013 | 6,803 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 4,741 | 365 | 32.2 |
| 2014 | 7,458 | 11th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 4,992 | 365 | 38.8 |
| 2015 | 6,776 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 5,614 | 365 | 36.0 |
| 2016 | 7,838 | 14th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 5,054 | 366 | 41.8 |
| 2017 | 7,616 | 13th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 4,284 | 365 | 16.3 |
| 2018 | 9,213 | 15th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 4,640 | 365 | 38.9 |
| 2019 | 6,375 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 5,070 | 365 | 38.1 |
| 2020 | 7,540 | 12th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 5,214 | 366 | 28.9 |
| 2021 | 6,491 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 4,336 | 365 | 28.5 |
| 2022 | 6,965 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 4,426 | 365 | 51.2 |
| 2023 | 6,729 | 6th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 5,959 | 365 | 99.9 |
| 2024 | 5,368 | 1st lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 4,308 | 305 | 31.7 |
Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.